February 8, 2016

Love... it's the inspiration
for googly-eyedhand-holding, drunk texting, drive-thru wedding chapels,
and nights of endless brooding. Love is uncontrollable, elusive, essential,
joyful and heart-wrenching. So what does science say about love?
At the next Secret Science Club, we’re about to find out…

Biological anthropologist Helen Fisher has written (and
re-written) the book on love. She asks: Does romantic love have evolutionary roots?
Why do we split up and stray? Can love be detected in a
brain scan? How often do hookups turn into relationships? What
are the signs of love addiction? Is Tinder a source of love at first sight—or cognitive overload?

Helen
Fisher is a senior
research fellow at the Kinsey Institute and a member of the Center for Human
Evolutionary Studies in the Department of Anthropology at Rutgers University.
She studies the evolution, brain systems, and cross-cultural patterns of
romantic love, mate choice, marriage, “cheating,” and divorce. She is the
author of five books: Why Him? Why Her?,
Why We Love, The First Sex, The Sex Contract, and Anatomy of Love, and has
been a featured scientist on the TED
Radio Hour, NPR’s On Being, the Colbert Report, and Anderson Cooper 360. Dr. Fisher is the chief scientific
advisor to Match.com, supervising the design and interpretation of the annual
Singles in America
national survey.

Before & After

--Snag a signed copy of Helen Fisher’s all-new updated classic,
Anatomy
of Love

--Sway to sappy
seductive grooves

--Try our captivatingcocktail of the
night, the Mia Amore

--Stick
around for the passion-filled Q&A

This love-soaked
edition of the Secret Science Clubmeets Tuesday, February 23, 2016, 8 pm @ the Bell House, 149 7th
St. (between 2nd and 3rd avenues) in Gowanus, Brooklyn. Subway: F or G to 4th Ave; R to 9th St.

The Secret Science Club is curated by Dorian Devins, Margaret Mittelbach, and Michael Crewdson. Dorian Devins is an NYC-based jazz singer and lyricist, and the former host of WFMU's “The Speakeasy.” Margaret Mittelbach and Michael Crewdson write about nature in the strangest of places; they are co-authors of Carnivorous Nights and Wild New York.